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ObamaCare: More of the Same Sicko Ideas
Smart Girl Nation
By: Jenn Q. Public
5.31.2009
When Barack Obama convened a White House forum on health care reform last week, there was one ground rule: check fresh ideas at the door. Of course, you’d never know that from Obama’s opening remarks rife with the usual bipartisan Mad Libbery.
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A Clarion Call for Expanding E-Commerce
TechNewsWorld Op-Ed
5.29.2009
America's winemakers have won a victory for online wine sales in Kansas, but the legislative battle demonstrates the challenges that e-commerce, a key force for economic recovery, still faces from outdated thinking and entrenched political institutions.
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Obama's Voucher Plan Isn't Enough
Freedom Politics
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
5.29.2009
In order to head off a public-relations catastrophe, Barack Obama has spun a partial about-face in his opposition to the school-choice voucher program for low-income students in Washington, DC. The president’s move, however, falls far short of truly saving the program and helping the legions of disadvantaged children in the nation’s capital.
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Obama's health reforms: Freddie Doc and Fannie Med
Los Angeles Daily News Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
5.28.2009
IN the battle over health reform, one issue has emerged as particularly divisive - the president's proposed government health plan that would compete with private insurers. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer recently promised that such a program would be immune to perpetual taxpayer bailouts because he would ensure that it would maintain the same solvency ratios as private health insurers.
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When politics rules medicine
World Net Daily (Washington, D.C.) News Clipping
5.28.2009
As the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress move to provide government-controlled health care on a national level, similar experiments in some states suggest medical care can take a backseat to politics and bureaucratic red tape – resulting in even urgent, life-saving treatments being denied while so-called "preventive services" get priority.
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Celebrate the Cuyahoga's Comeback
Tinytown Gazette Op-Ed
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
5.27.2009
This year is the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire, an event that has come to symbolize environmental degradation. The current condition of the river symbolizes something else worth recalling in the wake of Earth Day -- environmental improvement, from abysmal conditions.
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Health Freedom Returns to Arizona
Free Amerian Health Care Blog
By: John R. Graham
5.27.2009
Last November, Arizona's Proposition 101 was narrowly defeated at the ballot box. Prop 101 would have prevented the government from enrolling people in a government or private health plan against their choice, or otherwise preventing them from spending their own money on their own health care.
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A Closer Look at Personal Genomic Testing
Commonwealth Club Event Video
5.27.2009
PRI senior policy fellow in Technology Studies, Daniel Ballon, Ph.D.,participated in a panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 19, 2009. The discussion examined genomic testing’s technology, its ramifications, government regulation of the industry, and whether individuals should have their genome analyzed.
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The Geography of Carbon Emissions
The American Thinker
By: Jack Dini
5.23.2009
No American city is among the top 50 cities in the world for air pollution according to the World Bank. (1) Another list, ‘The Top Ten of the Dirty Thirty,' compiled by the Blacksmith Institute of New York compared the toxicity of contamination, the likelihood of it getting into humans and the number of people affected. Places were bumped up in rank if children were impacted. No US or European sites made the list.
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Options are the Best "Alternative" Education Policy for Parents
Independent Women's Forum (D.C.)
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D, Evelyn B. Stacey
5.22.2009
Located about an hour north of San Francisco, Santa Rosa is a gateway city to California's renowned Wine Country in the Sonoma and Napa Valleys. This "jewel of Northern California" is ranked by Forbes as one of the country's best places for businesses. For decades Santa Rosa has also been a location for family-friendly films and television shows, including All My Sons, The Wonderful World of Disney, and Cheaper by the Dozen.
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Film: Capistrano district poster child for 'broken' school system
Orange County Register News Clipping
By: Scott Martindale
5.21.2009
The Capistrano Unified School District is portrayed in a new, 49-minute documentary film as a case study in what is wrong with the American public school system and how politics, misplaced priorities and lack of oversight can derail what should otherwise be a successful institution.
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Is California Too Big To Fail?
CBS News (New York, NY)
By: Declan McCullagh
5.20.2009
California, the state that gave us wheatgrass, the microprocessor and the summer of love, is about to provide us with yet another first: a bailout of a failing state government.
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State voters signal loud and clear: Down with taxes
Sacramento Bee Op-Ed
By: Jason Clemens
5.20.2009
Californians did not solve all our state problems at the ballot box Tuesday. Far from it. They did, however, send a signal that could help end our economic nightmare if politicians take heed. On Tuesday, Californians made it clear they reject higher taxes, with good reason.
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Today’s “Public Options” Are Already Bankrupt
KQED Healthy Ideas - Californians Weigh In On Health Care
By: John R. Graham
5.20.2009
Mr. Wulsin reports the Congressional Budget Office’s conclusion that private insurers pay providers 20 percent to 30 percent above their costs; Medicare’s payments lay somewhere above or below the line; and Medicaid pays about 20 percent below costs.
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Oh Canada! ... Role-Reversal in North America?
The Brussels Journal (Belgium)
By: Marc Huybrechts
5.18.2009
Stereotypes are often rooted in some current or past reality, but they can also become outdated. While the USA and Japan have for a long time been regarded as small-government countries, among industrial countries, Canada has long been considered more ‘socialistic’ and closer to the big-government model of Western Europe. However, a careful look at the relevant economic data casts serious doubt on that old stereotype.
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Taming Runaway Health Care Costs
The New York Times
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.16.2009
David Leonhardt claims that research into the effectiveness of different treatment options would “tell us how to reduce spending without damaging people’s health.” Nonsense. Medical-effectiveness research will simply provide the government with cover to ration treatment. That’s exactly what happens in other countries.
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Revive state's start-up culture
The Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA) Op-Ed
By: Jason Clemens
5.16.2009
Californians perceive the Golden State as a bastion of entrepreneurship and innovation, and in some ways they're correct. Silicon Valley, after all, is a hub of researchers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and innovators.
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Great Right North
The Washington Post
By: Jason Clemens, Chris Edwards, Niels Veldhuis
5.15.2009
Reports last week that the recession is draining Social Security and Medicare funds were just one more reminder that the United States needs to fix its finances. For inspiration, why not look to Canada? Long derided by American conservatives as "socialist" and praised by the left for its generous government spending, Canada is casting off those stereotypes.
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Does Universal Preschool Improve Learning? Lessons from Georgia and Oklahoma
The Heritage Foundation
By: Lindsey Burke
5.14.2009
Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to help states implement taxpayer-funded universal preschool--preschool for all. The President's early education plan, for which he has advocated spending up to $10 billion annually in federal expenditures, encourages states to provide preschool for every child.
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The Immorality of Government Health Care
Freedom Politics Op-Ed
By: John R. Graham
5.14.2009
In the May 10 New York Times Sunday magazine, President Obama reflected on his elderly grandmother’s hip replacement. This episode, portrayed in a touching manner, turns out terribly enlightening about the hard questions all Americans face under his regime.
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Single-Payer and Group Coverage Empower Government, Not the People
KQED Healthy Ideas - Californians Weigh In On Health Care
By: John R. Graham
5.13.2009
I agree with Professor Chaufan that the “reforms” many states embraced to expand coverage with private insurance have failed, but disagree that it is because of a lack of government power. In fact, such reforms massively increase government power. For example, Massachusetts’ latest reform (passed by Governor Romney in 2006) made health insurance mandatory, and heavily subsidized those who could not afford it.
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Dangerous Health-Care Myths
National Review Online Interview
By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
5.13.2009
Sally C. Pipes’s latest title, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care, is a useful handbook for the health-care policy battle ahead. Pipes, the president of the Pacific Research Institute, shatters much of the conventional wisdom about American health care and offers conservatives bountiful ammunition for the coming showdown.
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Obama's Healthcare Reform Malpractice
Undernews Blog
5.12.2009
The only people Obama and congressional leaders are barring from the table in discussions of healthcare reform are people who advocate healthcare reform. You can't solve a problem by only talking to those who created it.
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Health Care Reform: What's in It for Patients?
ABC News
By: Dan Childs - ABC News Medical Unit
5.12.2009
On the same day that insurance companies, hospitals, doctors' groups and other so-called stakeholders in the United States health care system met with President Obama to discuss reforms, 64-year-old Patty Keen of Delaware was adjusting her schedule to attend the rehearsal for her grandson's confirmation.
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Busting Healthcare Myths
The American (American Enterprise Institute)
By: Robert Goldberg
5.11.2009
President Barack Obama has promised to fundamentally change America’s healthcare system. But before he and his team get too far down the field, they would do well to read Sally Pipes’s new book, The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen’s Guide. The book clearly and concisely explains even the most esoteric aspects of the healthcare debate.
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A swift re-tort: How to fight lawsuit abuse
Washington D.C. Examiner Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.10.2009
America’s economy remains in terrible shape and federal lawmakers are trying to kick-start a recovery by spending money. A better strategy would be to reform the country’s inefficient tort system, which is failing to promptly compensate true victims.
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Tax-credit scholarships offer school choice
Sacramento Bee News Clipping
By: Margaret A. Bengs
5.7.2009
How many parents would send their child to a better school if they could? A boy I know was going to school in a gang-infested neighborhood, kept getting in trouble and was suspended several times. His parents wanted to send him to a better school but couldn't afford it. Finally, they were able to place him in a Christian school in another state with scholarship assistance, where he is now excelling.
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An inevitable blast
Asia Times Online (Hong Kong)
By: The Mogambo Guru
5.7.2009
Economist Robert P Murphy at the blog Free Advice must have heard me screeching with Total Mogambo Disrespect (TMD) about Congress and Barack Obama deficit-spending almost US$2 trillion this year, and he says, "If fiscal policy is a disaster, monetary policy is even worse."
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Time for a Reagan Smackdown
National Review Online Op-Ed
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
5.7.2009
I've been trying all the known anger-management techniques to refrain from commenting on the Jeb Bush-inspired "get over Reagan" comments from the other day. This is really rich, coming from the awesomely successful Bush family, given the way President Bush 1 squandered Reagan's legacy by raising taxes in 1990, and by Bush 2 squandering the rest of Reagan's legacy over the past eight years. I expected better from Jeb, who seems to be the one member of the Bush family who can actually talk on his feet.
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Sally C. Pipes on Bill Bennett's 'Mornings in America'
Bill Bennett - Mornings in America
5.6.2009
PRI president and CEO, Sally C. Pipes talks with Bill Bennett about her book "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide," health care in Canada, and the Obama administration's proposed changes for health care in America.
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CNBC News - Early Stress Test Results
CNBC News - The Kudlow Report
5.6.2009
A look at the early stress test results and more with Lee Hoskins, fmr. Cleveland Fed Bank president; Bill Isaac, fmr. FDIC chairman; and CNBC's Mary Thompson, Charlie Gasparino & Larry Kudlow.
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Obama shifts personal responsibility to Washington
Post-Star (Glens Falls, NY) Op-Ed
By: Jason Clemens
5.6.2009
America has been irresponsible for too long, runs the rhetoric from the Obama White House, and that must be rectified. To that end, the president calls his budget blueprint, which outlines his spending and taxing priorities for the next 10 years, "A New Era of Responsibility." But calling something responsible doesn’t mean that it is.
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Failing D.C. Students
The Gadfly Blog
By: Daniel Hay
5.6.2009
The Washington, D.C. public school system is among the nation’s worst. In fact, it’s relatively uncontroversial to say that public schools in D.C. are the worst in the nation—despite the District spending over $15,000 per pupil in its public school system, by far the highest in the nation and well above the national average of $10,071.
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CNBC News - NY Fed Chair Resignation Watch
CNBC News - The Kudlow Report
5.6.2009
Fmr. Goldman Sachs CEO Steve Friedman, now chairman of the board of the NY Fed, made unethical purchases of Goldman Sachs stock after they became a bank holding company regulated by the NY Fed. CNBC's Larry Kudlow is calling for his resignation.
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Why HOT is better than HOV for California
The Flash Report
By: Jason Clemens
5.5.2009
As May 19th approaches, and the possibility of yet another budget crisis looms, Californians would do well to consider how well our state government uses and manages its existing resources. Transportation is one example where the state could get a great deal more out of the existing infrastructure while actually saving money.
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Did FDR Make the Depression Great?
Ludwig von Mises Institute News Clipping
By: David Gordon
5.5.2009
Robert Murphy demonstrates in this excellent book a penetrating ability to explain the essence of fallacious economic doctrines. As he notes, three theories offer competing explanations of the Great Depression: the Keynesian account, which stresses a lack of aggregate demand; Milton Friedman's monetarism, which ascribes the severity of the early years of the Depression to a drastic cut in the money supply by the Fed; and, of course, the Austrian theory that Murphy himself favors.
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A Cure Worse Than The Disease
CNSNews.com
By: Ed Feulner
5.4.2009
Emily Morley got some very bad news in March 2006. Her cancer had spread, the doctor informed the 67-year-old Canadian. She would need to see an oncologist. Then Morley got some really bad news: She’d have to wait several months before she could get an appointment.
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Political Insiders On Obama's First 100 Days
National Journal News Clipping
By: James A. Barnes
5.2.2009
After President Obama's 100 days in office, National Journal asked its Political Insiders to rank how he has handled four key groups: Democrats in Congress, Republicans in Congress, allies abroad and adversaries abroad -- relationships that will have a major impact on the overall success of his presidency.
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The Cost of Cap and Trade
Townhall.com Op-Ed
5.2.2009
Recently Congress took a break from nationalizing corporations and discussed the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill in which the federal government would auction off permits to businesses giving them legal permission to emit carbon dioxide. During the four days of hearings, one of the most contentious issues was how much the plan would cost. Some (Republican) opponents cited an MIT study and announced that the average household would pay $3,100 in higher prices because of the program.
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Congress Should Say 'No' to Internet Tax Hike
TechNewsWorld Op-Ed
5.1.2009
Voters are still reeling from tax day in a tough recession, and taking to the streets in protest, but state governments and their allies aren't listening. In fact, they are gearing up to squeeze more money out of the nation's workers. Their target is online shopping, and if the pro-tax coalition gets its way, embattled Americans will soon be shouldering higher tax burdens.
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Kansas Gov. Sebelius 2nd Choice for HHS
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Joe Emanuel
5.1.2009
President Barack Obama has nominated Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) to serve as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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When Environmental 'Catastrophes' Really Aren't
Forbes.com
By: Peter Robinson
5.1.2009
This year we mark the anniversaries of two environmental catastrophes. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million gallons of crude oil into the sea. Twenty years earlier, in 1969, the Cuyahoga River proved so thick with pollutants that it caught fire, sending oily black smoke billowing into the sky for half an hour.
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Virtual Ventures Expand Choice for K-12 Students
School Reform News (Heartland Institute) Op-Ed
By: Evelyn B. Stacey
5.1.2009
Not long ago, online courses were programs only for universities and vocational schools. But today, online offerings at public elementary, middle, and high schools are gaining ground, bringing more choices to parents, students, and teachers in the world of K-12 education.
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School districts illegally stockpiled millions of dollars
Sonoran Alliance (AZ) News Clipping
5.1.2009
(STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX) - As the rest of the state struggles with devastating economic conditions with cuts, layoffs and the associated financial and emotional trauma, schools have been illegally and secretly stockpiling millions of dollars.
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Coalition Pushes for More Tax Money for Broadband
Infotech & Telecom News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Brien Farley
5.1.2009
Advocates of government-funded expansion of broadband access are hoping the new president will be more receptive to their message. But technology experts say the change in the White House doesn’t alter the fact that the market will best meet America’s broadband needs.
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Obama Under Pressure to Regulate Internet Info-Gathering
Infotech & Telecom News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Aricka Flowers
5.1.2009
Self-described public advocacy groups are pressuring the Obama administration to create strong mandates regarding how much information Internet companies can collect on their customers and how it is used.
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Regulate Retail Clinics, Indiana Legislator Asks
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Aricka Flowers
5.1.2009
Indiana state Sen. Patricia Miller (R-Indianapolis) is calling for stiffer standards regulating retail clinics serving patrons in pharmacies, shopping malls, and big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target.
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Rhode Island Governor Seeks Medicaid Reform
Health Care News (Heartland Institute) News Clipping
By: Thomas Cheplick
5.1.2009
With his state among those facing growing budget crises due in part to unfunded health care liabilities, Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri (R) is asking the federal government for the freedom to reform the state’s Medicaid program.
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